Általános Orvostudományi Kar
MAGATARTÁSTUDOMÁNYI INTÉZET
Faculty of Medicine
DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIOUR SCIENCES
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, BASICS OF NURSING
Medicine 1st year – 2016/2017 2nd semester
COMMUNICATION SKILLS – AOK-KUA082
THESIS FOR ORAL EXAM
1. Perspectives of psychology: biological-cognitive neuroscience, individual perspective, social psychology
(lecture+Atkinson pp.12-17.)
2. Main approaches of individual perspective: cognitive-behavior/experimental psychology, psychodinamic,
humanistic (lecture+ Atkinson pp. 12-17.)
3. Perception 1): recognition-identification of the objects (bottom-up, top down processes, gestalt, geons)
(lecture+Atkinson pp.157-161., 171-176.)
4. Perception 2): constancies (colour, shape, size), bottom-up, top down processes
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 179-184.)
5. Perception 3): localization-distance perception, motion perception, efferent copy
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 157-164.)
6. Perception 4): abstractions-shemas (Atkinson pp. 176-177+lecture)
7. Attention: function of attention: relationship of the attention and consciousness, theory of signal detection
(signal/noise screening), cognitive resource- cognitive load, conscious attention needed for acquiring new
skills. Automatic response out of the control of attention, errors in the medical practice
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 114-116., 154-156.)
8. Stages of memory, Atkinson-Shiffrin theory. (lecture+ Atkinson pp. 272-274.)
9. Working memory: ~ span, function, structure, Baddley model (lecture+Atkinson pp. 277-285.)
10. Classification of long-term memory: implicit memory: priming, classical conditioning, skills; explicit memory:
episodic memory, semantic memory (lecture)
11. Long-term memory: explicit memory: coding, retrieving, theories of forgetting, forgetting and emotions,
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 285-292.)
12. Improving the memory (lecture+Atkinson 307-311.)
13. Implicit memory: priming, classical conditioning, skills, ~ and amnesia (lecture+Atkinson pp. 293-296.)
14. Constructive memory: inferences, post-event reconstructions (lecture+Atkinson pp. 298-302.)
15. Motivation: homeostasis, basic drives (one example), incentive theory, the relationship between the drives
and incentives, Hebb’s optimal arousal theory, Maslow hierarchy
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 263, 359-366., 486-487.)
16. Attitude and attitude change: cognitive dissonance and attitude change, foot in the door technique,
rationalization, levels of attitude change (obedience, identification, internalization), sandwich technique,
elaboration likelihood modell (lecture+Atkinson pp. 630-632. 635-636., 662-667.)
17. Social influence: social facilitation and inhibition, deindividuation, bystander intervention and diffusion of
responsibility (lecture+Atkinson pp. 610-617.)
18. Compliance and obedience: obedience to authority (Milgram experiment), comformity (Ash experiment),
informational social influence, normative social influence, institutional norms (Zimbardo experiment)
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 618-629., 636-638.)
19. Group processes: group decision making, group think, group polarization, reference groups
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 634-635, 638-639.)
20. Emotions: James-Lange and followers: bodily changes and emotions, James-Lange theory, Cannon-Bard’s
critics, somatic marker theory (Damasio) (lecture+Atkinson pp. 408-411.)
21. Emotions: emotional expressions. facial feedback hypothesis, basic emotions (Ekman), evolutionary role of
the emotions in communication (Darwin) (lecture+Atkinson pp. 412-414.)
22. Emotions: cognitive component of the emotions: components of emotion, two-factor theory, SchacterSinger experiment, misattribution of arousal, cognitive appraisal (Lazarus), regulation of emotion and the
marshmallow test (lecture+Atkinson pp. 396-402.,415-416.)
23. Impression formation: stereotype and top down processes, schemas, primacy effect, self fulfilling prophecy,
individuation, fundamental attribution error (lecture+Atkinson pp. 650-660.)
24. Social-cognition: theory of mind, intentionality, mirror neurons, imitation (lecture)
25. Relationship of heredity and environment: interaction of personality and environment: reactive, evocative,
proactive (lecture+Atkinson pp. 49-496.)
26. Nature-nurture debate: concept of the tabula rasa, maturation, critical periods (example), sensitive periods
(example) (lecture+Atkinson pp. 70-72.)
27. Intelligence I: psychological task: performance-personality tests, difference between the Binet and Weschler
task, WAIS: verbal IQ - performance IQ (lecture+Atkinson pp. 436-438.)
28. Intelligence II: general intelligence (g=general) Factor analytical process, What kind of mental processes are
measured by the tests? (lecture+Atkinson pp. 438-439.)
29. Intelligence III: mental retardation, dementia, crystalled scores/ fluid scores. What are determed by
IQ?(lecture)
30. Psychoanalitic personality theory: definition of personality, conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious, id, ego,
superego (lecture+ Atkinson pp. 467-468.)
31. Psychoanalitic personality theory: definition of personality, personality dymanics, defense mechanism (list
6), projective test (lecture+Atkinson pp. 468-471., 473-475.)
32. Psychoanalitic development theories: Freud: psychosexual stages (lecture+Atkinson pp. 471-472.)
33. Psychoanalitic development theories: Erikson (Erikson’ s psychosocial stages) (lecture)
34. Behaviour personality- and development theory: definition of personality, tabula rasa, learning processes,
role of classical conditioning and instrumental (operant) conditioning in social learning, observational
learning (lecture+pp. Atkinson pp. 477-479.)
35. Cognitive personality and development theory: definition of personality, social cognitive theory, Kelly’s
personal construct theory, self-schema (lecture+Atkinson pp. 479-483.)
36. Humanistic personality theory: definition of personality, Rogers (self-actualizing tendency, client-centered
therapy, ideal and actual self, unconditional positive regard, Q-sorting, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
(lecture+Atkinson pp. 484-488.)
37. Personality: Big 5 (lecture+Atkinson pp. 463-464.)
38. Attachment: stranger anxiety, separation axiety, autonomy (lecture+Atkinson pp. 90-92.)
39. Attachment styles: strange situation, internal working models (lecture+Atkinson pp. 92-94.)
40. Classical conditioning: UCR, UCS, CR, CS, extinction, second-order conditioning, generalization and
discrimination (lecture+Atkinson pp. 239-244)
41. Instrumental conditioning: law of effect, positive and negative reinforcement, positive and negative
punishment, shaping, conditioned reinforcers, partial-reinforcement (ratio and interval schedules), escape
learning, avoidance learning (lecture+Atkinson pp. 246-253.)
42. Complex learning cognitive map, observational learning (lecture+Atkinson pp. 255-257.)
43. Levels of communication: information level, metacommunication (practice handout)
44. Channels of communication: elements of communication, verbal and nonverbal channels (practice handout)
45. Aspects of communication: open and closed questions, factors that influence communiation, filters,
preventing communication distortion, establishment of the context (practice handout)
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